French Revolution
The French Revolution occurred from 1789 to 1799 and was a period of political and social upheaval. The Reign of Terror was a period of extreme violence that occurred during the first year of the revolution. This category focuses on the events that took place during and after revolution and their effects.
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The public executioner, Charles Henri Sanson, or more formally Chevalier Charles-Henri Sanson de Longval. He was the royal...
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They are the rims you would normally see used on heavy duty trucks with dual wheels. All the rims are the same and you turn two...
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Which one? i believe the number of revolutions is between 7-11
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It had a symbolic status as a Royal fortress. It was also known to have a large powder magazine and gunpowder would be essential...
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Midnight is spelled 'minuit' in French.
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Bread.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobin_%28politics%29
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Hey, I am doing an assessment on the French Revolution as we speak and as I remember they actually ate near to nothing. As Louis'...
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The person who took over the army was Napoleon
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30 000 In Europe, 400,000 people died every year due to small pox during the French Revolution.
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In brief, Rosseau believed in the natural goodness of man; that humans were corrupted by the greed and competition of...
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Robespierre was a villain. He was a person that believed strongly in the everyone being equal and believed that people that were...
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AnswerNapolean Bonaparte was a military commander in the French revolution. He drove the Royal Navy out of Toulon and defended...
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AnswerBoth. in its immediate results, a failure, because it led to several rapid changes of regime, culminating in military...
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When King Louis XVI was killed, it officially ended the absolute monarchy in France.
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He maintained price controls on essential food products.
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The Women's Bread March on Versailles was a popular grass roots protest which sought to gain the attention of the crown to the...
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It marks for history the beginning moment of the French Revolution.
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They defied the Monarchy and the Clergy and demanded a constitutional government.
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It was an attempt to bind Austria and France together through a convenient marriage. It failed to work out as a political...
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Physio, of course, is short for physiotherapy. The French word is one of my favourite words; Kinésithérapie; a physiotherapist...
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Yes. Sorry if it's incorrect.
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No not really, Although he was kind-hearted and quite calm he was some say 'too' calm and never really addressed the issues...
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A government called the Directory took over and France was at war with a lot of other countries until Wellington and Blucher's...
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It triggered more radical ideas such as freedom and democracy.
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He married twice. His first wife was Maria Theresa of Spain and his second was Françoise d'Aubigné (marquise de Maintenon).
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Her name is Madame Defarge .
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Monarchy;government by the people
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As i know Bastile is located on France and it was a prison place for the population that didn't pay the taxes.When the...
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The King was taken to the guillotine in a carriage, but Marie Antoinette was driven through Paris in an open cart.
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She was born in New York in 1760, was a Loyalist, married a British Lieutenant Colonel Henry Johnson and was later knighted. She...
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If you subscribe to the premise that the French Revolution was a grass roots movement by the people in the street, they would...
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Napoleon had very little to do with the Revolution itself. His prominence and leadership came later.
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Legitmacy and a balance of power.
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The fourth year of liberty after 1789 on 21 September 1792 after Louis XVI's monarchy was abolished became the first year of...
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the Social Contract didn't impact the French Revolution in anyway.
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By giving the Protestants the right to practice their religion (except in Paris), the areas they lived in would not be in...
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Louis XIV did not do that, Louis XVI did. He did this because he was forced to.France was bankrupt and the Royal family had been...
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The slogan was "Liberté, égalité, fraternité" (liberty, equality, fraternity (brotherhood)). The French Revolution...
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Well, First France sold the Louisiana territory and then the British set up a partial blockade which would only allow some...
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The end of aristocracy and the beginning of the French republic. Decreased power of the church.It ended the absolute Monarchy in...
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The people were dmanding an end to the Reign of Terror.
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The French Revolution began in 1789 with the Storming of the Bastille and ended in 1799 with a coup that created the French...
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Kings and queens had no role in building the Eiffel tower. The last French king was ousted by the 1848 revolution. The decision...
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Women did gain some rights, but were still in effect second-class citizens.
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The Bastille. It was a prison in Paris.
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they were probably cruel and wicked or they just didn't get respect from the peasants.
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Here is a good link on the subject http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennis_Court_Oath The Tennis Court Oath was a result of the...
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King Louis XVI was planning to send troops to Paris so the people of France retaliated buy attacking the royal fortress. The...
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Only the Third Estate.
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simalarities: - as in all revolutions - structural simalarity. First period of refusing old regime; which is changed by period...
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The meeting of the Etats generaux (Estates General), the revolution beginning with the storming of the Bastille, la Terreur (The...
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In 1792 the monarchy was abolished and France was declared a republic. However, several attempts were made to establish a...
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Chile became independent from Spain on 18 September 1810.
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The French revolution began on July 14, 1789 with the Storming of the Bastille.
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--the end of the ancien regime and of absolute (not constitutional) monarchy in France and challenging the "divine rights" and...
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There are some countries that do not want to put all the government powers into one person so they created branches of government...
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I would say American Revolution because it was known as a 'world war' at that time. It also told countries that the 13 colonies...
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The women's march on Versailles happened after October 5, 1789 because that was when Louis XVI refused to sign the Declaration of...
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French people, especially Parisians were very wary at the presence of the king's foreign regiments, fearing the king would send...
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Marie-Antoinette, wife and Queen of Louis XVI, was executed by guillotine on the grounds that she had committed treason by...
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The National Assembly
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Because of everything about her. She was absolutely different then any other queen the world had seen. She was very stylish and...
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Marie Antoinette was a symbol of goodness and of everything that was right with the French monarchy. Also as queen, she made many...
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It is France's Independence day. It is celbrated July 14.
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All died during childhood except Marie Therese who lived to the age of 72 and died childless in Austria.
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Peter the Great
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1) they were much more motivated, as they were defending their homes2) the british were spending incomprehensible sums of money...
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They believed that taxes were much too high, (they over the few generations prior lost their respect and fear of the King) and...
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the Bastille fortress was dismantled soon after it was stormed on the 14th of July, 1789. Its dismantling was already scheduled...
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French society unequal?In the 1700s, France was the leading country ofEurope. It was the center of the new ideas of...
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By no means. Kings do not join clubs, especially extreme Republican ones.
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There were no jobs, no food, and wheat to make bread was very expensive. bread was the staple of the French peasant diet at the...
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noble class and middle class
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The Reign of Terror is also known simply as "The Terror."
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Hard to answer, but I dare a little answer, and I hope we will develop it. Romantism is more an artistic movement than a...
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1. Politically: France before the Revolution was a monarchy, that is, hereditary rule, as was most of Europe. The Revolution...
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"Liberty, Equality, Fraternity" is the French motto which came about around the time of the french revolution. Liberty...
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There were Queens, but they just didn't rule the country. Monarchy in France was always passed on from father to son, daughters...
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She came from one of the most important royal houses of Europe, the House of Habsburg, and she herself grew up in Vienna until...
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The maintenance of a balance of power in Europe.
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LOL let me guess you're from ISG dammam? hahaha me too =)
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He was the personification of an Absolute Monarch.
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The Palace of Versailles.
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Well let me start at the beginning shall I? America wasn't always its own separate country. It used to be colonies controlled by...
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau (28 June 1712 - 2 July 1778) was a major Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer of 18th-century...
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The famous method used was the Guillotine.
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because if it had broken out in Italy it would have been called the Italian Revolution ...lol
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The French Revolution was well worth how it changed France's society today but I believe people pushed it little too far than...
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Muskets, pistols swords, daggers and not forgetting the guillotine.The primary weapon was the Charleville musket.
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It can be said that The French Revolution ended on the 24th December 1799 when Napoleon Bonaparte was elected First Consul.
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Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité, ou la Mort! (Liberty, Equality, Fraternity/Brotherhood, or Death!)
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Maximillien Robespierre, nicknamed "the Incorruptible", was the leader of the Jacobins who took over the leadership of France...
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One them died of a sickness called tuberculosis. The other child of her's had been abused.
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